Monday would have been iconic 60s writer Richard Brautigan‘s 77th birthday. No one seems to be reading Brautigan these days. What a pity; his work has so much to offer. This Youtube video of his daughter Ianthe reading from Brautigan’s story, “One Afternoon in 1939”, is a gem from his collection Revenge of the Lawn. In 2001, she published the bittersweet You Can’t Catch Death:A Daughter’s Memoir about her life with her father during the 60s. Richard Brautigan committed suicide in 1984.